11.   Britain vies with the United States as top arms supplier to Saudi Arabia, but France is the leading military supplier for the U.A.E.

12.   Chalmers and Greene urged Western nations, as the main arms suppliers, to put pressure on the Gulf states to take part in the register.

13.   China is a key arms supplier to Pakistan, which it regards as a counterweight to rival India.

14.   China is a key arms supplier to Pakistan.

15.   France is a traditional arms supplier to Qatar, where almost a quarter of all weapons in service with the armed forces are French-made.

16.   France is a traditional arms supplier to Qatar, and Qatari military personnel routinely train in France.

17.   France is also a traditional arms supplier to Qatar, and Qatari military personnel routinely train in France.

18.   France, formerly a major trade partner and arms supplier for Iraq, has been positioning itself to snare lucrative contracts once sanctions are lifted.

19.   He charged that the state-owned South African arms supplier, Armscor, had provided the weapons to Protestant paramilitary groups aided by British intelligence.

20.   He did not cite any specific arms supplier, although Pakistan has been alleged to have supplied weapons to Taliban rebels who seized the capital Kabul last week.